ELMORE, Ala. (AP) - Authorities say an Opelika man has been killed in a kayaking mishap.
Al.com reports (https://bit.ly/2oZPaeU ) that the death happened Sunday on the Coosa River in Elmore.
Alabama State Troopers Sunday night identified the victim as 71-year-old Charles Reid Cloninger Jr.
Authorities said Cloninger was kayaking near Corn Creek when he became separated from his kayak.
A bystander pulled him from the water a short time later near Gold Star Park in Wetumpka, but he was pronounced dead at Elmore Community Hospital.
The accident remained under investigation by troopers and the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency’s Marine Patrol Division.
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